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Apostolic Prefecture of the Sandwich Islands
The
Prefecture Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands
or
the Sandwich Isles Mission
, was an ecclesiastical territory of the
Roman Catholic Church
created by
Pope Leo XII
on November 27, 1825, encompassing the Sandwich Islands (now the
state of Hawai‘i
) and entrusted to the care of the
Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
. Father
Alexis Bachelot
, SS.CC., was the only Prefect. The Prefecture was made subject to the newly created
Vicariate Apostolic of Oriental Oceania
on June 2, 1833. The present-day successor to the prefecture is the
Diocese of Honolulu
.
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